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Farming & the land, 1908

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Late Melbourne News. Melbourne, Saturday Night Decrease in Butter Supply

Sunday Times · Sunday 19 January 1908 · page 7

A departmental report shows that during the past 13 months 25,465 tons of butter reached Melbourne from country districts. This was 1380 tons less loan the…

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CATTLE — Driving in Ireland. Judge Disgusted with Jury. Trial Bt Jury a Failure. London. December 8

Sunday Times · Sunday 19 January 1908 · page 12

The series of Crown prosecutions for "riot, unlawful assembly, and conspiracy"-chiefly "cattle-driving" in the West of Ireland-which took place in…

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Farm and Garden Answers to Correspondents

Sunday Times · Sunday 19 January 1908 · page 2

BOT FLIES (in reply to "F.G.,"Dundee): Will be given in next issue of the "Sunday Times." DRIED PEAS (in reply to "R.A.S."): "Blue Boilers" is the name given to any or all of a…

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Cooling Farm Separator Cream

Sunday Times · Sunday 19 January 1908 · page 2

One of the greatest objections urged against the hand separators (says a writer in the "American Agriculturist") is that the cream gets too sour before being…

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Wages Boards and Farmers

Sunday Times · Sunday 19 January 1908 · page 5

On one ground, the Queensland Laborites deserve victory in the forthcoming elections. They are the only branch of the party in the Commonwealth who are…

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Record Butter Shipment

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 January 1908 · page 8

The R.M.S. Ormuz took 19,718 boxes of butter for oversea ports, a record tor Brisbane…

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Wheat Afloat

Evening News · Monday 20 January 1908 · page 4

LONDON, Sunday Evening.—The wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is estimated at 3,130,000 quarters, and for the Continent at 1,140,000 quarters. The shipments of American wheat…

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Butter Grading. Novel Idea

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 January 1908 · page 9

When the Commonwealth Commerce Act was put in operation the States began unevenly in respect to the methods of inspecting and grading butter for export to…

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The Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 January 1908 · page 6

Buyers will now be fully occupied in sampling the wool offerings preparatory to the sale which opens to-morrow. As shown in detail in our wool articles of…

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Brisbane Wool Sales. Brisbane, Saturday

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 January 1908 · page 13

Dalgety and Co., Brisbane, report that they offered 10,240 bales of wool on January 18. They catalogued 3600 bales. This being the first important sale in any market since the Christmas vacation, great interest…

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New Zealand. Butter and Cheese Shipments. Wallington

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 January 1908 · page 8

The total value of butter and cheese by the steamer Paparoa, which left for London on Saturday, was £180,837. The cheese shipment was valued at £70,207, a record for New…

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Queensland. Brisbane Wool Sales. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 January 1908 · page 8

The sixth wool sales of the present series of Brisbane sales were held on Saturday. There was an excellent attendance, and 10,264 bales, were catalogued. Competition for greasy wool…

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Wheat Shipments London, Sunday, 2 p.m

The Australian Star · Monday 20 January 1908 · page 1

The quantity of wheat afloat is estimated at 3,130,000 quarters for the United Kingdom, and at 1,140,000 quarters for the Continent. The shipments from Atlantic ports during…

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Stations and Farms for Sale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 January 1908 · page 6

Classified advertisements under this heading will be found on page 10…

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On the Land. Farm and Station. Horse Dentists and Farriers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 January 1908 · page 9

It is paradoxical that while Australia is [?]tally a country of horse lovers, there is no animal so neglected. Probably it is because the horse has played such a familiar…

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The Farman Aeroplane. Marvellous Flight in France

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 January 1908 · page 10

The news cabled recently that Mr. Henry Farman, the English aeronaut, had succeeded in winning the Deutsch-Archdeacon prize of £2000 will not come as a big surprise. Since…

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The Wharf Labourers' Strike. Farmers Impatient of Delay. a Practical Move. Newcastle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 January 1908 · page 7

Owing to the lack of despatching arrangements here during the past fortnight, and the losses entailed upon farmers in not "catching" the market, they are discussing…

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Wheat Farms

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 21 January 1908 · page 2

Under the above heading Messrs. Richardson and Wrench, Ltd. in conjunction with Claude A. Archer (Grentell) advertise that they will offer at public auction at Grenfell, on Thursday 22nd…

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Butter Grading

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 January 1908 · page 4

Mr. A. Chambers writes:—There can be no two opinions about the fact that Government butter grading at Sydney has been detrimental financially to the majority of the producers…

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Butter Exports

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 January 1908 · page 9

The exports of butter during the week ended January l8 totalled 7913 boxes, of which 7897 boxes were shipped to the United Kingdom and the Continent, 5 to Japan, 17 to New Caledonia, 19 to South Sea…

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